I keep stepping to the edge of the cliff and proceed to back off slowly. If they ran a sale I'd be done for.

Just jump, the fall is worse than the landing :)

I keep stepping to the edge of the cliff and proceed to back off slowly. If they ran a sale I'd be done for.

Amazon has it for $40.99 which is $9 off...Buy.com has it for 39.99 which is $10 off...don't worry we'll catch you if you fall. :)

Got Taliana up to L12 overnight, time to see if I can get her to L15 before work (and I'm hoping things are quiet during work so I can join up)

we should buy a guild charter-only takes 5 to make one-it cost one plat, which is sadly more than I have right now. You can buy it in the central tower in Meridian-ground floor, right as you come into the first room there.

we should buy a guild charter-only takes 5 to make one-it cost one plat, which is sadly more than I have right now. You can buy it in the central tower in Meridian-ground floor, right as you come into the first room there.

I am level 10 now...not even close to 1 Plat as far as money..LOL.

I am level 10 now...not even close to 1 Plat as far as money..LOL.

well hurry it up newbie-you're the one paying for it! :D

Kejaan the refuses to heal cleric is mid-level 14 for tonight's escapades. I am still looking for gems for artificer needs if you miners don't need them. I've been sendng out duplicate artifacts-as Raider found out today-got your mail in return-not sure I will want to use those items when I get that level, but thanks. :)

Myrrdore...lvl 7 now...took most of the night to download the game.

Justicar / Druid / Shaman

I have a level 29 Justicar / Shaman, love it!

we should buy a guild charter-only takes 5 to make one-it cost one plat, which is sadly more than I have right now. You can buy it in the central tower in Meridian-ground floor, right as you come into the first room there.

I have a plat to pitch in. Warrior lvl 13 now and Mage lvl 12

we should buy a guild charter-only takes 5 to make one-it cost one plat, which is sadly more than I have right now. You can buy it in the central tower in Meridian-ground floor, right as you come into the first room there.

I have a plat to spare too... we going FOFC for the name or something a little more creative? Either way is fine with me.

Looking forward to playing with you guys tonight.

Bagatur - lvl 15 Ranger / Marksman / Riftstalker

I am in Meridian now and have money for the guild charter. As long as the name doesn't suck, that is. :)

Guild is formed: Defiant Trout

I think we had 7 of us on. Good times. I just wish they had a sidekick or mentor system so we could all play the same missions.

Bagatur - lvl 15 Ranger / Marksman / Riftstalker

I am in Meridian now and have money for the guild charter. As long as the name doesn't suck, that is. :)

Just out of curiosity you were racking up achievements left and right, did you find a database that tells you what achievements are in the game by chance?

Guild is formed: Defiant Trout

I think we had 7 of us on. Good times. I just wish they had a sidekick or mentor system so we could all play the same missions.
Oh my... I was trying to level up my new Mage this weekend so I could join the group going forwards. I didn't realize you had already created a guild. I could swear I saw someone with that guild name last night. I finally made my way to Meridan, and have now just completed the quests down by the Lakeside Outpost and waterfront. I'm pretty sure I pinged Level 15 and believe I will be on my way to Smith's Haven.

Where is the group off to next?

Just out of curiosity you were racking up achievements left and right, did you find a database that tells you what achievements are in the game by chance?

I think you can see them all in the game, right? If you go to the page where it shows your overall "score", you can click on the breakdown of each section, and it shows you the achievements you already made as well as the rest of them. I'll double-check tonight.

there's a button at the bottom left-that's a link to achievements.

Playing Sat night with the group- I think we all should get to lvl 17 to do the Iron Tomb together. I felt it was very easy to solo to 17 (where I am at now). Of course, this is just my opinion and we can do whatever we want ;)

All Defiant Trout should make sure you check your mailbox...

Just out of curiosity you were racking up achievements left and right, did you find a database that tells you what achievements are in the game by chance?

Those were mostly PVP achievements. I did The Black Garden warfront several times and just kept getting them.

What server are you guys playing on? I could make a character there, though I would only be able to play occasionally.

Keenblade

This may have already been answered, but I am going to ask anyways.

If I buy it from somewhere other than Steam do I need to bother with the install disc? Or do you register it with your Rift account and download at your leisure?

This may have already been answered, but I am going to ask anyways.

If I buy it from somewhere other than Steam do I need to bother with the install disc? Or do you register it with your Rift account and download at your leisure?

You should be good to go. I bought directly from the Rift website and there were no problems (other than the 8 GB download).

Playing Sat night with the group- I think we all should get to lvl 17 to do the Iron Tomb together. I felt it was very easy to solo to 17 (where I am at now). Of course, this is just my opinion and we can do whatever we want ;)

Yeah, let's do the Iron Tomb. As long as everyone has a level 17 character we'll do well. I think we have a good mix of characters.

Just bought it :(.

Not sure how much playtime I'll have though, could be zero or could be a lot.

Tyketime- What's your name in Keenblade?

Thomkal- Thanks for the necklace

Do we have a shared bank through the Guild? I looked but couldn't see anything in game but I swear I saw it on the boards.

Do we have a shared bank through the Guild? I looked but couldn't see anything in game but I swear I saw it on the boards.

I think there is not currently a Guild Bank in the game based on posts I've seen at the Rift site, but since I wasn't in a guild at the time I didn't pay much attention to them.

Just bought it :(.

Not sure how much playtime I'll have though, could be zero or could be a lot.


Do you still hate me? :) Welcome to the game Jeff, I'll be happy to start a new character once you are ready to play and walk you through the early game if you want.

Remember guys the first major content update is tomorrow, don't know what time it will be available, but they've been doing their updates right around 11 am EST normally. We should check in tomorrow to see what the new world event is going to be like.

Ok, not going to play tonight, just wanted the character created, Retsim the likely soon to be Necro it is.

As far as the guild, is that something I can join now or do I worry about that later?

you can join the guild as soon as one of us sends you an invite.

Raiders- thanks for the gear my man...

Are we all going to try to play Fri or Sat night?

I am going to try to play then, and yes thanks Raiders for the nice stuff. :)

Remember guys the first major content update is tomorrow, don't know what time it will be available, but they've been doing their updates right around 11 am EST normally. We should check in tomorrow to see what the new world event is going to be like.

Does look like servers will go down at 11 am EST again. The only difference with this update is that servers will be down an estimated 4 hours.

How can I go 4 hours without playing Rift? :D

Update is up, took about 10 mins to download and apply-about 450MB download.

I'll be on tonight to see the updated grounds. I'm being lazy - is there a linky to find the changes in the update?

Alpha 1.1 Update Notes - Now Available! (http://forums.riftgame.com/showthread.php?137034-Alpha-1.1-Update-Notes-Now-Available)!

For fun I sometimes read through the official Rift forums. I saw this today (posted from a player in Japan), and makes me even happier I've decided to invest in Rift & Trion:

I don't post much on the forums... but just wanted to say a big thanks to TRION for:

"Dear xxxxxxx,

Trion Worlds, with the rest of the world, has been following the unprecedented events in Japan. We hope that you and your family are safe and well. We understand that, at this time, you may have more immediate priorities than playing RIFT, so we have credited your Trion Worlds account with an additional thirty (30) days of RIFT game time.

This additional game time will automatically be credited to your account — you do not need to do anything. If you have an active subscription plan, your first billing date will be postponed/delayed by an additional thirty days. No change will be made to the subscription plan you have chosen.

We are grateful for the support that you have shown for RIFT by purchasing our game and hope you enjoy this additional game time.

Sincerely,
Trion Worlds, Inc."

It was an unexpected surprise and a nice gesture on their part, many thanks. Thoughts and prayers to others in Japan hit hardest by the recent events.
I have no reason to think this is a hoax, so instead I :bowdown:

servers appear to be back up

World Event in progress!

Okay there was some (okay a lot) of confusion over what was going on with the new event and quests, so thought I'd let you know what to do.

When you log in you will see there is a new world quest available-there does not appear to be anything you can do with that-I'm guessing an invasion will happen sooner or later.

I logged in at Denegar's Stand-there was a new quest giver there telling you to go to Meridian to find out more about the world event. This person is in front of or behind the portal depending which way you come-there will be another questgiver there, a daily quest giver.

The daily quest giver wants you to close 3 death rifts-there's a quest giver not connected to this in the command center that asked me to close 6 death rifts (this is on my level 20 guy), so you can get credit for both here.

The person in Meridian you are directed to, wants you to find the tears between the planes that are starting to form in Meridian-and pull the creature out who is causing it and kill them, giving you an activate device to pull the creature out. You must then go and find what looks like purple flames or smoke and then use the activator (the sqiurrel trap activator if you did that quest) You can then fight the planar being-was level 15 for me. I found two spots with flame (you have to do this 3 times). One is right by the guild questgivers and merchant in the Foyer-that respawned quickly for me-the other was in the tunnel leading to the command center-that did not respawn quickly.

The main questgiver will also give you a quest to collect a corrupted essence. I believe the way you get this is to do death rifts until you get a reward of some kind of stone who's name I'm forgetting, begins with an E. When you get it, it will tell you there's a quest associated with it. So click on it to activate the quest and bring it back to the quest giver (you may not have to bring it back, but this is how it worked for me).

I then went back and did another death rift-I then got a corrupted essence as a reward. You then have to click on that in your inventory-that summons an enemy to fight you. I did it by the new guarded wardstone outside Meridian as they will help you fight it. You will get an achievement and prefix title at some point during this quest chain so be on the lookout for them.

Some tips on the main death rift quest since people were not reading what they were supposed to do in the quest-there are wolves and werewolves in this rift, with two or more big stone formations you can activate. Some of the stages have you click on these formations to cleanse the wolves and werewolves. You MUST do this, not just kill them like in most rifts. Once they are cleansed, they turn purple then you can kill them to complete the other part of the stage. You wil miss out on the bonus stage if you don't do this. Make sure all pets are put on defensive so they don't keep the wolves away from the stones (you have to pull them toward the stones to cleanse them)

Thanks Thomkal - sounds confusing at first but after I re-read what you said it makes sense now. I don;t think I would have figured it out on my own ;)

Part of the patch comes with VIDEO CAPTURE:
VIDEO CAPTURE
* You can record video through RIFT up to 3 minutes in length. If you add a YouTube account through the Settings menu, RIFT will automatically upload videos to that account!
* Type /record or press CTRL+Y to start recording. Use it again to stop!
* Small icons next to the minimap show when video is recording and encoding.
* Once encoding is complete, you will have the option to upload if you have attached a YouTube account.

That's pretty neat!

I'm fucking around as Retsim now, feel free to make fun of my noobness or extend a guild invite :).

any defiant trout that would like to avail themselves of my artificer services, you can check out this page to see what's available. I think I'm up to skill level 50 or so. You can message me in game if you want.

http://www.riftdb.com/search.aspx?browse=131.5#recipes:0+2+1

And if you see my main on-Severian, please send him a guild invite. :)

Got a "RIFT - Friends Play Free This Weekend!‏". If any of you want to give it a try, PM me and I'll give you the code....

same here...

Ditto, each code can be redeemed 5 times and I sent 3 out so I have a couple left if anyone is interested in trying it.

I haven't checked my mail yet today, but I'm guessing I have one of these waiting for me too. PM me if you need a code.

The inner IT geek in me loves the Mobile Authenticator. Does WOW or any other games do this?

The inner IT geek in me loves the Mobile Authenticator. Does WOW or any other games do this?

I meant to ask about that. Is that only available on Android phones now? If not... is it only available on smart phones or whatever? I have a crappy old school basic cell phone and it doesn't seem like I would be able to use this option if I wanted to, but I'm so out of touch when it comes ot the phone stuff that I am really not sure.

I have a Droid, so I didn't look to hard, but I only saw a link for the Android version.

Well, I think I'm picking this up tomorrow. I'm in the process of building my wife's computer, so she might be playing in the next couple weeks too.

Got to say, it's solid and well put together. Amazing it was released less than a month ago.

I meant to ask about that. Is that only available on Android phones now? If not... is it only available on smart phones or whatever? I have a crappy old school basic cell phone and it doesn't seem like I would be able to use this option if I wanted to, but I'm so out of touch when it comes ot the phone stuff that I am really not sure.

Just available for the Android for now, but working on other versions.

I do have the "Friends Code" email, so feel free to PM me if you want it.

The inner IT geek in me loves the Mobile Authenticator. Does WOW or any other games do this?

WOW has a mobile authenticator. I used to use it with my Blackberry Curve.

What is Mobile Authenticator?

It's an app you install on your phone that displays a series of numbers which change every 30 seconds. When you logon to Rift you type your user, pass and whichever series of numbers is being displayed on your phone. It's an extra layer of security.

got it... thanks

Just bought it and downloaded it.........I hope you guys are right. Do we have an active FOFC guild and on what server?

Just bought it and downloaded it.........I hope you guys are right. Do we have an active FOFC guild and on what server?
Keenblade server
Defiant Faction

I need to get my character added to the Guild as well...

giving this a try as soon as the download is finished...my WoW guild sent out tons of weekend passes...not sure i want to get into another monthly service fee game, but we will see what happens...i will be on Kelpmere, Guardians.

giving this a try as soon as the download is finished...my WoW guild sent out tons of weekend passes...not sure i want to get into another monthly service fee game, but we will see what happens...i will be on Kelpmere, Guardians.
Cool! You obviously have your guildies, but feel free to ask any questions here as well...

I'm really liking it so far, but I'm having a problem with being indecisive. I've created 5 characters on Keenblade, and like them all. I simply don't know what one to stick with. Is there a class that is lacking in numbers?

One other thing - The quickbar isn't enough. I need more room, but when I try the layout feature, I can't get it to work. Grr.

I wonder if curse has any addons yet.

One other thing - The quickbar isn't enough. I need more room, but when I try the layout feature, I can't get it to work. Grr.

I wonder if curse has any addons yet.

You add more bars via the interface options menu. The layout just moves existing stuff on the screen around.

They upped the rewards for the world event quest dailies, you can get 40 a day now instead of 20 from the quests. They also seem to give rewards for closing death rifts more consistently, and they added some legit items to buy that weren't there yesterday. There's a *really* nice purple mage ring for 300 shards that I am working my way towards.

I'm really liking it so far, but I'm having a problem with being indecisive. I've created 5 characters on Keenblade, and like them all. I simply don't know what one to stick with. Is there a class that is lacking in numbers?

LOL, you are screwed Schmidty, just wait until you start getting more than 3 souls form each character and adding additional roles :)

There actually seems to be a pretty good balance actually, seems like rogues are the most popular followed by clerics, warriors and mages. If you like mages a Warlock / Chloromancer is a fun build that lets you solo when others aren't around and is also effective on raids.

BTW, did you find the option to add more action bars? I always go 2 on the bottom and 1 on the side as 3 is the minimum needed for me. You can also export our UI settings so when you make characters in the future you don't have to redo the layout manually.

One other thing - The quickbar isn't enough. I need more room, but when I try the layout feature, I can't get it to work. Grr.

I wonder if curse has any addons yet.

As for being undecided on which character to play-the good news is that starting around level 15 you can do quests that will give you the remaining souls in your calling-you can then switch out one soul for another to give you options or if you just didn't like one of the souls you originally picked. This lets you make a more PvP build for instance if you were to concentrate on that. I would say that mage is the likely lowest numbers in the game right now as they are a bit weak compared to the other callings. But don't worry about that, play the ones that are the most interesting to you.

As for the quickbar, do you mean the action bar at the bottom of the screen where all your combat and other keys are?. If so if you go into settings there is a section for action bars-where you can put up another one or more on the bottom or the side or both.

Welcome to the game Schmidty. Be sure to give us the name of the character(s) you are playing so they can be added to the guild. If you are still low level, some of us I'm sure would be happy to make alts to group with you and help show you parts of the game.

You add more bars via the interface options menu. The layout just moves existing stuff on the screen around.

dola,

esc->settings->interface-action bars

There's a dropdown menu to add additional bottom bars and side bars.


Other highly recommended options that make things much simpler for me:

Interface->Misc - Auto-Loot by default, Auto Loot button = none, Enable AOE Looting (in a group you will still by default roll on greens and up), this just auto loots the vendor trash).

Interface->Misc: Ability Queue = Full. This allows you to "queue up" your next skill while the current one is casting. This is less effective on a rogue where you are constantly regenerating energy but works really really well on a mana based character.

Interface->Camera - I have camera shake turned off. You'll see what it is pretty soon and decide for yourself. If i stare at the screen too often while its happening it triggers my super weak motion sickness problems.

They upped the rewards for the world event quest dailies, you can get 40 a day now instead of 20 from the quests. They also seem to give rewards for closing death rifts more consistently, and they added some legit items to buy that weren't there yesterday. There's a *really* nice purple mage ring for 300 shards that I am working my way towards.

Yeah there's a rogue ring at 50 shards too and then a better version at 300. I was tempted to take the 50 one, but gonna go for the 300 one. Think I have 75 shards at the moment. Has anybody got a spectral horse or other nice reward from a rift yet? I haven't seen anybody get one, but there are reports and pictures on the forum of people getting them

So when I logged in last night I was surprised at the number of "Defiant Trout" members. Are all from FOFC, or did we join with another group?

So when I logged in last night I was surprised at the number of "Defiant Trout" members. Are all from FOFC, or did we join with another group?

Pretty sure all are FOFC, there are some alts in there though too

Keep in mind this is the friends play free weekend - so if anyone's RL friends or FOFCers are on the fence and want to try the game out, they can.

My code is good for up to 5 people, feel free to use it if you like.

DHFY-Y7EJ-CW2D-W2QK-KMZD

Visit RIFT - Allies of the Ascended (www.RIFTgame.com/en/ally) on how to use it.

Yeah there's a rogue ring at 50 shards too and then a better version at 300. I was tempted to take the 50 one, but gonna go for the 300 one. Think I have 75 shards at the moment. Has anybody got a spectral horse or other nice reward from a rift yet? I haven't seen anybody get one, but there are reports and pictures on the forum of people getting them


i'm at 75 as well, haven't heard of a spectral horse, is that a unique mount based on the event? that would own so much :) The mage ring at 300 is astoundingly good, I'm holding out for one of those before I do anything else.


I did a level ~40 dungeon yesterday, Runic Descent. The layouts and graphics in some of these dungeons are really beautiful. I wish I'd taken some screenshots.

i'm at 75 as well, haven't heard of a spectral horse, is that a unique mount based on the event? that would own so much :) The mage ring at 300 is astoundingly good, I'm holding out for one of those before I do anything else.


I did a level ~40 dungeon yesterday, Runic Descent. The layouts and graphics in some of these dungeons are really beautiful. I wish I'd taken some screenshots.

Spectral Horse (http://forums.riftgame.com/showthread.php?146006-Spectral-Horse&highlight=spectral)

There's a screenshot of the horse in that thread.

Tried out the video capture, got this shot of a rift from above standing at the top of one of the towers near Iron Fortress

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nice shot there BYU, I was just up on that tower for the first time last night, some nice views from there. :)

Very nice BYU. I'm definitely going to screw around with the video capture feature some soon.

Video capture tool is really nice - did a little view of my character in Sanctum.


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Found a way to get on top of one of the highest Mountains, good view of the land with a Death Rift over the Ark of the Ascended on one side and Iron Fortress off in the distance from another

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We still getting a group together tonight? I should be on after 7:00 EST tonight...

some of us will be there tonight

Crap, don't know what happened but I got booted. Won't be back on tonight due to party, good luck doing IT

Thanks for the help guys. I'll log in in a bit and ask for an invitation to the guild.

Good times with the FOFC group doing the first dungeon/instance, Iron Tomb. After that first pillar, I think we did a lot better. :)

Good times tonight guys... got 1.5 lvls tonight running IT

yes thank the gods (oh wait we dont believe in them!) that we had a good guide to show us the way there. Picked up some neat items, including a bow that has a chance to entangle and slow whomever I'm shooting at.

I'm on there now... would like to join the Guild... don't know how though.

Name: Clotiveze (Rogue)

Alright...I have been on the road for work and have had almost zero time to play.

I will be gaming tomorrow night and almost the entire week when I have free time.

I looked up the guild, but I'm not sure who to PM to ask me to join.....

I'm on there now... would like to join the Guild... don't know how though.

Name: Clotiveze (Rogue)

Is Clotiveze a guardian? I tried to add you as a friend and could not, we are all playing Defiants on this server (keenblade)

I'm on there now... would like to join the Guild... don't know how though.

Name: Clotiveze (Rogue)

Our Guild is on the Defiant side. I think you picked Guardian.

I looked up the guild, but I'm not sure who to PM to ask me to join.....

I'll probably be on later this afternoon as either Raider, Ballistic, or Allisa. What's your character's name?

I looked up the guild, but I'm not sure who to PM to ask me to join.....

Two ways to do this Schmidity and all other new players-post your character(s) name here-and we can add you as a friend and then when online together, add you to the guild. Or you can make us friends (Use the O command to get to this) and then you will be notified when one of us is online or you can check when logging in to see if any are online-then send us a tell and we can then add you. There's another thread with the names of our characters if you can't find them in this thread.

stop crossposting with me Raiders!

I likely won't be on much today till after dinner time-my family after saying they were coming for a visit the past three weekends-are finally coming today (I think)

Is Clotiveze a guardian? I tried to add you as a friend and could not, we are all playing Defiants on this server (keenblade)

Yea, my bad, I thought you were all Guardians. I will create another account.

Ok. .created another character.. I'm Grandal (Mage) - Defiant

Just hit 50 on my Briarcliff mage. That's why I haven't been over on Keenblade with you guys. I was making that final push.

I'll try to drop in soon.

I was able to grind to 17 today...once my kids head back home tonight I will grind out more.

I do need to do the IT tonight, so I will see if anyone is on and wanting to run it.

I'd love to do IT tonight, wasn't able to Saturday, but I've put on 5 levels since then and have a couple quests.

Yeah, I'm full on addict :(.

I'll do IT tonight... I wont be on until 7:30ish EST time

I'll do IT tonight... I wont be on until 7:30ish EST time

I might be on then...my kids won't be picked up until like 9is EST.

I can do 9 EST too... I'll be up watching the game anyhow. I'll play some ootp until 8:30ish and log on.

I am in for IT as well, missed it Saturday, will be on between 7:30-8:00 EST.

Will only have time to do IT, but it would be great to get it out of the way :)

So I've taken the plunge. It looks like I'll probably end up doing most of my playing on a different server, as my brother and some others are there, but I'll do my best to drop in when I can on Keenblade.

I'm sort of intrigued by the game, but not hooked yet. It seems like a carbon copy of Warcraft but for the character class system (Souls) and graphical style (which isn't necessarily a bad thing). Although the incredible diversity of character creation in the Soul system has me very intrigued, I worry that it will eventually be too difficult to balance and that there will only be a few viable builds that people utilize. Of course, at level 10-15ish, as I am now, that will be impossible to tell until later.

On the negative side, the playstyle and questing seems to be pretty much identical to Warcraft. I've only done about one zone's worth of quests so far on the Guardians, and not quite a full zone on the Defiant side, so there's still plenty of room - but it seems to be the same old "kill XX of these," "collect XX of those," "escort this guy here" questing. Although it was comfortable to pick up my rogue and instantly have a 5-combo-point-and-finisher combat system...it was sadly boring and the same as I'm used to elsewhere. I do enjoy that there is a bit more synergy between different abilities to build combo points - the Keen Strike/Quick Strike combination for an Assassin has a much better 'feel' to generating combo points than just spamming the same button over and over again, but it will probably just become a 1-2-1-2 rotation instead of 1-1-1-1. Hopefully as I progress down the tree and level further, more synergy like that is apparent. I'm also looking forward to trying out some of the more unique Souls, although the interesting ones leave many questions as to their solo-playability (Dominator and Bard are the two that come to mind off the top of my head as interesting but probably futile solo endeavors).

On the positive side, the Rifts are really awesome. The ease with which you can join a public group on the fly and band together to defeat difficult content as it happens is incredible, and really brings out the Massively Multiplayer in MMORPG. I've only seen a few rifts so far, and those minor ones at that...hopefully there's a little variety to them so that by the time you're in the upper (or even max) levels they aren't boring, ho-hum affairs.

I'm off to level some more - I'm very interested in getting into the dungeons and raids, as they are by leaps and bounds my favorite part of WoW. Hopefully Rift can compare favorably there.

I'm off to level some more - I'm very interested in getting into the dungeons and raids, as they are by leaps and bounds my favorite part of WoW. Hopefully Rift can compare favorably there.

I think Rift is leaps and bounds over WoW here....It's challenging and makes you actually strategize to accomplish the dungeons..

I think Rift is leaps and bounds over WoW here....It's challenging and makes you actually strategize to accomplish the dungeons..

That would be awesome if it is indeed the case.

That would be awesome if it is indeed the case.

6 of us ran the Iron Tomb last night and was thoroughly whipped on and we had to work hard to get through it and we were at the level(s) that was needed for the dungeon.

6 of us ran the Iron Tomb last night and was thoroughly whipped on and we had to work hard to get through it and we were at the level(s) that was needed for the dungeon.

Yeah we definitely took an ass whipping in there....I was never involved on the bad end of a beatdown like that in WOW.

Well, I'm finally on for the first time in a day..........and I still can't decide what to play. I like all of the classes. It's frustrating.

Never played a game where I have collected so many cool things that I don't know what to do with :)

So I finally got my ass handed to me last night for the first time. Stumbled across a Rift in Freemarch near the Todrin Estate, jumped into the public group with two other people and fully expected to roll it up nice and quick like the minor rifts that I had been soloing back near the Ark of the Ascended. Quickly was I abused of that notion. I was level 11, and the mobs pouring out of the Rift were 11-12, and they took nice big chunks of my life away at a time. My personal shield and heal over time spell were enough to keep me plowing through them, however (Shaman/Justicar/Warden Cleric). Then came the big old rock golem/elemental, a level 11 elite that just wrecked our faces, multiple times.

I love that in this game an Elite mob really will kick your butt - one thing that I think Warcraft blew it on was creating "elite" mobs that were anything but that.

Anyhow, after the three of us got wrecked, we came back and started to attack him more cautiously. After three deaths or so I realized he was doing a proximity AoE attack that was what was really destroying us, and we began to whittle him down. Right before we managed to kill him, he used some other ability that basically one-shot me at range, some beam of light. I didn't manage to catch the mechanic on that one, so I'm going to have to stay on my toes if I see him again. But even while dead and running back to my corpse, I got credit for the kill, and boy was it a satisfying kill.

Here's hoping that Rifts remain dynamic at higher levels even after repetition, because this is a lot of fun so far, and I'd hate for it to only be fun because it's new. Variety will be key in keeping events like this from becoming mundane, I think.

I haven't played WOW, so I can't compare. I've played EQ1 and 2, DAOC and AO very briefly. Peak of my enjoyment came with EQ1, the others didn't come close to stacking up. To me Rift is easily the closest that's come to EQ. May surpass it eventually.

Ok, so I'm assuming that "Roles" are basically different soul builds? I see that I can buy one for I think it was 30 Plat. How many can you end up having, and what is the mechanic for swapping roles? Is there a cooldown or a cost for switching roles?

Answering my own question, it appears you can eventually unlock 4 different Roles (30 gold, 3 Plat and 22 Plat, I believe were the prices), and you can freely switch between them out of combat.

Answering my own question, it appears you can eventually unlock 4 different Roles (30 gold, 3 Plat and 22 Plat, I believe were the prices), and you can freely switch between them out of combat.


Yup, I'm enjoying this system quite a bit. I am leveling up as a necro/warlock which has a lot of survivability for a mage and makes me feel pretty safe most of the time, but I switch to pyromancer/warlock for instances, and last night ran across a rift where people were just AE'ing down everything so I hopped out of combat, switched over to Pyro and AE'd the hell out of everything. Finished the rift, switched back to necro and went about my business. I really like the variety and utility available.

It seems to me that when WOW first came out, elites were elite and the game just felt epic. But as time went on, WOW dumbed down the content and players got better gear. There was a time where just about every quest chain ended with a badass of some kind that you had to group up to kill. All of those baddies are now just normals. Every low level char is running around with rare quality heirlooms as well, which just makes the content a breeze.

I remember when Molten Core took months to clear, and that was with a 40 man raid. We'd be lucky to take down the next boss in just 1 week of practice (read: getting our butts kicked).

The video capture is pretty cool...I was playing around with it earlier and I recorded a small rift battle I started..

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Never played a game where I have collected so many cool things that I don't know what to do with :)i

I totally love the artifacts in this game and there are so many to collect, it is like opening a opack of Baseball cards as a kid everytime I find one :)

Here are the problems as I see them with Rift so far:

-With four different "roles," why would I ever need to roll an alternate character? One of each class will be more than enough for me, and I will actually more than likely keep it to just two, rather than four characters.
-The biggest draw to me thus far is the unique Soul system for character design/development. However, with 32 different souls, balance is going to be a huge, huge issue, and I'm more than certain that some will simply be ignored at high levels.
-Aside from lack of play, this balance issue will impact game design. Encounters (both PvP and PvE) are invariably balanced against what characters are capable of. If certain Souls are overpowered, weaker souls will not only be ignored, but be made ever weaker by the inevitable "arms race" that comes from designers developing more difficult content.
-The storyline. While it is initially a large draw, because I love a story driven game, what happens when we finally kill Regulos? Is something else going to come around and force the Rifts to remain? As a persistent world, a single overarching enemy, while great for unifying people and creating a story, seems like a detriment to further development in an MMO.

I need a bit more time with the game to see if these concerns are well-founded, but from my initial forays, these are the things that stick out to me.

Want to run IT tomorrow...hit me up if your on and we can see if we can drum up a group to go through.

I just hit 19 and would love to run IT. Can DPS or heal it.

Developers Discuss World Event Phases in IRC Chat :: Rift :: ZAM (http://rift.zam.com/story.html?story=25954)

noon pacific for the next phase of the world event!

ah for some reason I was thinking it was noon eastern time, now I have to wait three hours more? waaah! :)

We need to organize our crafting efforts here, and pick our guild perks-we have one point in each category.

We need to organize our crafting efforts here, and pick our guild perks-we have one point in each category.

I switched from Artificer to Weaponsmith because I know a bunch of us were on the Artificer crafting.

I switched from Artificer to Weaponsmith because I know a bunch of us were on the Artificer crafting.

Yes there can be only one Artificer! (me :) ) So I can use gems of all sorts, ashwood Lumber/Planks in particular, but other sorts of woods and ores too. I've nearly made it to Skilled Artificer (already skilled forager and miner), which will hopefully open up some neat shiny new stuff for me to make for you guys.

apparantly the European servers are already experiencing Part 2 of the world event and early reports are not good-lots of lag and disconnects. Let's hope Trion has fixes in place by the time the event starts here. :)

and they have put a halt on the event on the EU servers while they try to fix the lag and disconnects. And in other news, someone has managed to hack the server messages you get from time to time to announce a server shutdown or whatever...they were advertising their website. This was on Briarcliff server

We need to organize our crafting efforts here, and pick our guild perks-we have one point in each category.

Good idea, it sure would be nice if the guilds had a central depository for supplies.

I'm up to about 220 on apothecary.

Bought 80 bloodshade petals for 5/g a piece yesterday, which boosted my level tons. Today they are going for 90/g a piece. Just need to keep checking the auction house for deals.

All Shards - Phase 2 of the World Event has Been Delayed (http://forums.riftgame.com/showthread.php?159145-All-Shards-Phase-2-of-the-World-Event-has-Been-Delayed)

Delayed until further notice-they haven't said yet if it will be later today or another day. Stage 1 of the event will continue (minus the part they deactivated yesterday I'm guessing)

I'm running strictly gatherer on Brooklynne - Foraging/Mining/Butchery (though I need to get the Butchery skill up before I head over to Stonefield).

As for guild perks, I'd recommend the one that gets us extra money; everyone could use more money. As for the other point...your guess is as good as mine.

Finished up the Shadetouched Weapon Cache quest last night and pulled a Stave of Deception. A very nice staff. I think this is the first rare drop I've ever gotten in any game. I wonder how rare it actually is :D.

grats Jeff! I've yet to get a special item from the event. :( On the bright side, I now have another week to get one. :)

Finished up the Shadetouched Weapon Cache quest last night and pulled a Stave of Deception. A very nice staff. I think this is the first rare drop I've ever gotten in any game. I wonder how rare it actually is :D.

Is that a level 50 quest? If not how do you get it started? I've only got the 3 dailies that you can pick up in Meridian going.

The item that kicks it off is rare drop from event invasions. What level it is depends on the zone you are in. Mine was 33, but they have one for the entire range.

We had a raid group of about 24 and I just got lucky that it dropped and I got it.

you get the cache as a reward from one of the death event themed rifts (and invasions?) after that I have no idea what goes on cause I don't have one :(

The quest has you finding various drops from death related rifts, invasion and a colossal boss.

I had to clear about 5 rifts, 15 invasions and one colossal to do the quest. I lucked out that there was a huge event when I was playing last night and met all the requirements finishing it.

ah ok thanks, I just haven't lucked into the item to start the quest it sounds like. I've really only been doing enough rifts/invasions to do the dailies every day and that's it, so probably no surprise.

Messing with the recording, pretty cool. Records and uploads to youtube seamlessly with a status all the way through.

So for the people who haven't played, this is what Rift has that's supposed to set it apart. There were a couple dozen steps to get to this final enemy, each one basically it's own raid then this big guy is the final goal. This is a 20 man raid group that was put together on the fly, very organic.

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You can actually see another Rift in the background for most the vid.

What's IT? My 16 rogue is my highest level, so I'm not even sure I could help, but I'd like to run it.

Iron Tomb, need to be 17 I think. Good size group required.

What's IT? My 16 rogue is my highest level, so I'm not even sure I could help, but I'd like to run it.

Iron Tomb, it has a couple of brutal bosses, best to be in the 18-22 range, so you are close and it definitely takes 5 people. I added a more defensive role to my tank for the next run through there so I can eat more damage and hold threat better. The other build I have is too high on DPS and better for solo than raids.

BTW, that's great footage Jeff

More common Rift. This one's air, I love the look of the Air Rifts. Get's more exciting as it goes on.

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I just did Kings Breach. It was fun, but I think Iron Tomb was more impressive.

Here's a dungeon/zone chart that could be helpful.

So who's our Guild Outfitter? We need Bags man, Bags!

I can make 10 slot bags for now. Let me know how many you want..

I can make 10 slot bags for now. Let me know how many you want..

I'll take 3 please-to Kejaan, thanks. :)

I'll take 3 please-to Kejaan, thanks. :)

I found a rare 18 slot bag after a rift invasion, one of my few rare finds.

I can make 10 slot bags for now. Let me know how many you want..

Holy cow, that would be awesome!!

I found a rare 10 slot bag after a rift invasion, one of my few rare finds.

I've never even found a blue item. :(

I think I saw someone with that rare mount drop, was pretty cool.

Problem is if you get a rare weapon/armor before you are 45+ you outgrow it and you can't sell it because it's soulbound. My staff's nice and all, but I'm guessing it will be replaced by common quest items soon.

We moved to our new home this past weekend - I hope to get online and play by the weekend. I'm going through some RIFT withdraw ;)

What lvl is everyone at now? I think I'm stuck on 21... I hope by the time I get on you guys aren't all in the 40's!!

I think most people are 21 give or take a few levels and most have alts. So you are in a good spot.

I'm traveling on business(hello Buffalo) so I need to break my addiction for a few days.

I finally made it to Skilled Artificer and what do I get? 2 less than impressive, but perhaps useful new neck item recipes (+3 STR, +7 DEX) and (+3 INT, +7 WIS) and no Skilled Artificer title like when I reached 75 in Foraging and Mining. :(

Let me know if you want these or any other artificer item.

Give it some time. I got the skilled title right away on 2 of my professions and it was delayed on the 3rd for some reason. It got there.

I got my Master title right away for apothecary :D.

My Rogue is 18th and almost 19, and I really want to run IT sometime this week. I know that at least one other person wants to as well. Anyone interested?

I'm interested.. haven't even been there.. I'm a level 20 Mage.

I am definitely interested, I have a score to settle there :)

We'll run IT on Thursday night at 7 EST (sorry for being time-zone challenged).

I have a Warrior DPS I want to run through. Please post what you will run through so we have the right mix. Thanks!

I'm sure I'm to high level now, so I think that itch is going to remain unscratched.

I have a Mage DPS with some control

The only one I can even use is my Rogue, which is obviously DPS too.

found my first cairn tonight-in Stonelands, got a nice mace from it that I'm one level too low for right now. I can show people where it is but if looking on your own its near the top of the mountain right behind Camp Fergus (not sure that's the right name), just follow the road out the back of Granite Falls, stay to the right when the intersection comes, and you will see the camp. Look for a sparkling half dome about 3/4 of the way up.

I would highly recommend hitting that Cairn up. I got a nice set of purple shoulders (level 25 req'd).

I will be running a Warrior, but I have a tank build designed to take threat and damage so I can primary Tank while you are DPS Raiders.

I can also make 10 slot Wool bags now too if anybody wants some.

I would highly recommend hitting that Cairn up. I got a nice set of purple shoulders (level 25 req'd).

Glad you found it and got a nice item out of it. :)

I finally got one of the special event items last night from a death rift-the 18 slot bag which is very nice indeed

Any mage or cleric using totems? I can make a +8 INT, +3 WIS, +61 Spell Power one for you if you'd like just let me know.

Well, there were three of us willing to run IT today. It's 7:30 PM EST and that's it. We decided to postpone it. Maybe this weekend?

7:30 EST is just a little too early for me - I get home from work right about at that time, and since I work out in the field, I like to shower and such when I get home. 8:00 EST I could probably make.

I've bought two of the three extra role slots for my Cleric. My main role is Melee DPS as a Shaman/Justicar, my secondary is as a tank with a Justicar heavy build, and my 3rd role is as of yet unclaimed. I've filled it out as a Cabalist AoE DPS type build, but I'm thinking of swapping her over to being a healer, just for the flexibility. So if/when we get a group together, I can fill any of the three roles as needed.

I don't know how many people we still have in the IT/Freemarch level range, but if we'd like, I could set up a group to run those epic group story quests and then do IT afterward (they lead up to a quest that goes into the Iron Tomb).

Got there a little late.. 8PM EST would be better for me.

Someone please take these plants off my hands so I can free up room in my bank and backpacks please thank you very much. :) I'd rather give them to someone who can use them than sell them.

Yeah, I have a lot of quality plants I can't use...so if some else can.

Leather as well, have tons of thick leather right now.

Look at us, its like we are trying to sell pot here. ;)

With names like Tattertwist... I think it's pretty damned close.

I don't know how many people we still have in the IT/Freemarch level range, but if we'd like, I could set up a group to run those epic group story quests and then do IT afterward (they lead up to a quest that goes into the Iron Tomb).

That sounds good to me. Being that we're staying in a motel and I can't get on Rift right now, hopefully we'll be back in our house tomorrow. Fires are pretty bad in Oklahoma and I had to grab the kids from school and met up with the wife and then rolled to Texas. We'll head back tomorrow and hopefully not have to deal with evacuations.

Anyhow, does 7 PM EST sounds good for tomorrow?

Sorry your going through that Raiders, hope you all stay safe.

I was online earlier today and asked the others if they were interested in starting up some Guardian characters. I think the first couple zones on that side are a little more interesting than the Defiant side, both in terms of quests, story, and visually. There are some neat areas (Hedge Maze, Palisades, and Overwatch Keep) that would be fun to go through with my fellow Trout. :)

I hope things clear up for you guys Raiders!

Weekends are a bit touch-and-go for me as far as availability. I'll try to be online, but no promises.

Just a reminder that (hopefully) the second part of the World Event starts today at 3pm EST. I likely will be there for it if any Trout wants to join me for the fun (and incredibly long boss battles).

What level are you now, Thomkal?

Raiders: I hope they are able to get the fires under control and your family can return to your house. Be safe! Telara will be there when you return :)

...and its not off to a good start in Europe-less laggy perhaps, but many servers crashed and restarted back in stage 1, some people stuck in the River of Souls instance unable to portal out or resurrect....sigh.

I've given Trion the benefit of the doubt so far-new MMO, new technology, new company, new people working on a MMO for the first time, etc, so the delay of a week for part 2 of the event didn't bother me. I may have to give them a thumbs down for this though, especially after delaying it for a week-to still be having major trouble with the event is a sign it was way too early to be doing this kind of thing and they should have waited.

And I can't seem them delaying it another week because next weekend is Easter weekend. Let's hope its more stable when/if it starts on US servers later today.

tyketime, both my characters (Kejaan, Severian) are Level 25 (one may be 24 still)

yikes they "turned off" some souls more spam producing abilities for the duration of the event to help cut down on the lag and server instability. That's not going to go over well...

tyketime, both my characters (Kejaan, Severian) are Level 25 (one may be 24 still)

Correction-kejaan is level 26, Severian is level 25

Thanks for the kind thoughts everyone. There were several fires in the area yesterday, the one in our vicinity was the largest. It burned over 4,000 acres. One house and a few buildings burned down. Oh, and the Goodyear Plant's train bridge burned down too. I can't remember the last time we had rain here.

Anyhow, I'll be on tonight. Let's see what happens!

Can someone explain the World Event...Are you supposed to be in a certain area ? Is there a quest involved ? Do you just close Rifts?

Hope everything is well, Raiders. I won't be able to play until tommorrow sometime.

Can someone explain the World Event...Are you supposed to be in a certain area ? Is there a quest involved ? Do you just close Rifts?

It will begin in every zone-three or more boss fights in each zone and rifts/invasions-heavily story oriented with Alsbeth leading the invasion-they've changed things around from the original plan it looks like, so not sure what exactly will happen in part 3 and where, there just may be a cutscene, and then the new river of souls instance will open for high levels.

OK, Thanks!!

You might want to check or log in early for the world event-they are expectng queues, and at least one server, Briarcliff already has one.

servers going down in 25 mins for a quick 15 minute update then the event

Thanks for the kind thoughts everyone. There were several fires in the area yesterday, the one in our vicinity was the largest. It burned over 4,000 acres. One house and a few buildings burned down. Oh, and the Goodyear Plant's train bridge burned down too. I can't remember the last time we had rain here.

Anyhow, I'll be on tonight. Let's see what happens!

Glad you'll be able to get back home buddy, had to be scary for a few days.

Dola, we still good for 7:00 est tonight?

servers are back

event will be starting shortly (I hope)

82nd in Queue on Keenblade 46 minute wait right now

event is over, retsim can tell you about stage 3. Naza and I were together in stonefield, had to fight 3 bosses in various parts of the zone-succeeded and I got the honor of being the first on the server to kill one of them. :) Got the weapons cache, but no horse. :( I don't know how long that quest will be active though. Or how long the merchants will be there.

Was fun but did have one server crash when going to stage 3. No lag for me even with the big boss battles.

So if you were to give examples of why RIFT is cool and how it is different from other MMOs what would you say?

Stage 3, lol.

I had to run from Scarwood to Stillmoore because I had no port. By the time I got there I had just missed the final event, so I didn't get the participation achievement which sucked(got every one but this one for the event). Everyone was confused, I'm not sure there was even a battle and there were cries of being underwhelmed :D.

I then briefly entered the River of Souls instance. Entry mobs were level 52 epics with HP from 150k-450k, I then left the instance.

What server are all you guys on?

Shaun

Keenblade

What server are all you guys on?

Shaun

I've been seeing you viewing the thread Shaun, hope you will join us. If you check out the other Rift thread on here you will see our character's names if you want to contact any of us in-game.

event is over, retsim can tell you about stage 3. Naza and I were together in stonefield, had to fight 3 bosses in various parts of the zone-succeeded and I got the honor of being the first on the server to kill one of them. :) Got the weapons cache, but no horse. :( I don't know how long that quest will be active though. Or how long the merchants will be there.

Was fun but did have one server crash when going to stage 3. No lag for me even with the big boss battles.

Oh I almost forgot to mention, we were having our own Rift event here in Myrtle Beach during the whole event. Every ten minutes or so, a new tornado alert came over the radio, and I was going to be pissed if a storm took out the power in the middle of the Event that got delayed a week! Thankfully the really bad stuff stayed away till it was over.

So if you were to give examples of why RIFT is cool and how it is different from other MMOs what would you say?

CF, most MMO's are very similar in terms of how they are set up because most regular players of them expect certain things from them in terms of how they are set up, the various UI windows, crafting, player vs player setup, etc. So its theme and the one or two unique ideas that make it into each game.

With Rift, its just that the Rifts that nearly continuously open up in the sky and drop all sorts of nasties looking to destroy the natives. There are several different variations of Rifts, each is like a mini-event with various stages you must beat before moving on to the boss at the end. They have a good storyline developed around the Rifts and the two opposing factions in the game.

Another mostly unique feature is its soul (player character classes) system. Players choose between four different Callings (main character classes-Warrior, Priest, Mage, and Rogue. Then within each Calling there are 8 (9 if you go the PvP route) Souls. These are 8 different character classes originating from their Calling-like Marksman and Assassin for Rogue, Pyromancer and Stormcaller for Mage, Shaman and Druid for Priest, Paladin and Champion for Warrior for example. Each level you get "soul Points" to invest in one of three Souls a character may have. There's a "tech-tree" for each soul where you spend your points giving yourself new abilities or strengthening certain parts of your soul's capabilities. It really provides a lot of options for character building, letting you play how ever you want.

First month is free if you decide to get the game to give you enough time to decide if you like it or not.

I've been seeing you viewing the thread Shaun, hope you will join us. If you check out the other Rift thread on here you will see our character's names if you want to contact any of us in-game.

Bought the game, level 6. I am on the same server as you guys, and toon name is "PureSim"

Let me know if I can get a guild invite!

Shaun

Glad you are with us Shaun! Feel free to ask questions or for help, or some nifty crafted stuff. :)

For those who couldn't get into the Phase 2 & 3 events today, here's their official response. Once again - they're doing right by me (a paying subscriber):

When we set out to get this unveil event in front of you, it was all about some serious ambitions.

Great new types of content to unveil a brand new raid zone. Events that really push the edge of what's possible not just in Rift, but in any MMO of its kind. All within an incredibly rapid amount of time following launch.

In this case, while we did get to "what's possible" we didn't get to "solid gameplay for the entire game universe." The later phases of the event were too concentrated and time-compressed, which caused issues on a number of worlds.

Ambition is important -- It's what keeps us improving day to day, week to week, month to month. But, it's equally important to know when you walked too close to the edge and got cut.

Between our previous experience with zone events and now with world events, we have a much better idea of the range we can create "fun" for at a mass scale in the future, and the steps we need to take to continue progressing the more solid gameplay experiences that only happen in RIFT.

As I had posted earlier, our next world events will already be taking everything we learned, as well as all of your comments about the event, into account. Please do keep them coming -- I guarantee we're here reading them all, weekend or not.

As developers, none of us are happy when anyone who chooses to spend their valuable time in our game feels like they got the short end of our aspirations.

To that end, even if something goes great for some, when it doesn't go great for all, we're going to go out of our way to make it up in some way wherever we can.

We're going to assume that if you are an active subscriber you were intending to participate in the final stages.

1) Operating on that assumption, later this week everyone will be receiving an in-game mail with the River of Souls Event Reward Pack containing:

Symbol of Purity – This item starts a quest you can complete to obtain
250 Otherworldly Sourcestone
1x - Purified Treasure Cache – Contains a random chance of obtaining one of the special world drop event rewards from the day of the event
Common – Grave Goods Bag -Unique 20 Slot Bag (NEW ITEM)
Uncommon - Shroud of Anti-Life – Lorn non combat Polymorph
Rare – Nimble Spectral Horse – 90% Speed Mount
Ultra Rare – Swift Spectral Warhorse – 110% Speed Mount
Shadetouched Weapon Cache – The starter item for the Rare Death weapon quests. You can choose whichever level appropriate one you'd like.
The following two Achievements, since not everyone who was (or wanted to be) present was able to obtain them.
Grim Hero
Grim Protector 2) The achievement for kneeling to Alsbeth will remain available in her incarnation inside the River of Souls.

3) Additionally, we're also going to continue the Otherworldly Sourcestone drops for the next few days, for those who haven't yet finished off their collections and would care to.

4) And since the question has come up quite a few times -- the ability to complete the quests from the Shadetouched Weapon Cache will continue, such that you're always able to finish them.


We do thank you for your patience with us during this first ever World Event. We know that patience isn't infinite. We do respect that fact greatly, and you have our word that we're listening and reacting smartly for the next round.

- Scott

2) The achievement for kneeling to Alsbeth will remain available in her incarnation inside the River of Souls.

I missed that by about 30 seconds, so yeah. That's all I wanted :D.

Glad I didn't go ahead and blow my sourcestones, since they are still dropping.

And yeah, the main problem(in my opinion) was it was all too compressed, happy they recognized that. For phase 2, if you blinked you may have missed out on the invasion for whatever zone you were in. I imagine the mad rush of people to each hot zone caused more than a few technical issues on the backend. Happily I went up against at least 2 bosses in shimmer.

For phase 3 there wasn't enough time for people to get to the location that was being broadcast, since this was a single location globally and not per zone.

Just observations, I'm not exactly up in arms over this :D. I still have more than enough fun with the more typical zone events(stop invasions, seal rifts, kill colossal boss, get loot and achievements).

Able to make 14 slot bags now, I have 5 left until I get some more silk, so first come, first served, let me know if you want one :)

That's nice that they are doing all that given all the problems they had with the event. It never made any sense to me to do Part 2 just once, and then only the higher levels have the chance to do Part 3. It would have been good to have Part 2 run several times over a weekend or maybe even a week just to give people enough opportunities to participate. I also think it was just too early in the game's history to try something like this, but hopefully they will learn a lot from it for future world events.

For me Part 2 was better than I expected given the horror stories I heard coming from the European shards-Yeah the server crashed once, but the three boss battles went quicker than I expected, and it was crazy fun running across the countryside avoiding natives, invasions, rifts, and even Alsbeth herself! I actually came face to face with her as I didn't see her coming until it was almost too late. It will be interesting to see what direction they can take these world events-how much variety will be in them, etc.

And yeah for giving us a another chance to win that horse! :)

BYU, Severian will take one of those bags thanks-maybe send one or two to our new friend Puresim?

Bought the game, level 6. I am on the same server as you guys, and toon name is "PureSim"

Let me know if I can get a guild invite!

Shaun

hey Shaun,

I sent you some crafted items I think might help-you can access your mailbox outside the ark of the ascended there. Some are level 11 required which you will achieve fairly quickly. Feel free to sell them if you have better.

Finale of a fire invasion in Shimmer today. I didn't realize I had set myself tagged for PVP somehow, so the instant this video ends I was stabbed in the ass to death by a Guardian rogue. At least he had the good mind to wait.

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Damn that was a battle

I really love those invasions, they are so simple in idea but they work real well. The whole zone coming together as one once the alarms sound, traveling down the roads on horseback with a bunch of strangers to confront that guy. The whole experience, before and during battle, really works.

Arrived home tonight from Vegas (I logged on maybe twice while there to check some things on the AH) but I will be playing a lot this week.

Alright...we need to plan an IT run this week.

There are a ton of quests I need to finish up in here.

Lets pick a night, if we can get 5 we will be good to go.

What level are most of you at these days? My Guardian character on Keenblade is currently in Scarwood Reach. One of my quests is to plant a Guardian Banner on 5 Defiant corpses. So I need for you to saunter on over so I can give you a good Guardian smackdown :devil:

Lets pick a night, if we can get 5 we will be good to go.

How about tomorrow (4/20) at like 8 or 9 EST?

I'm down... haven't been in there yet.

I haven't done as much dungeon raiding as I should, but IT is still hands down my favorite one so far. They put a lot of effort into that.

Really need to get into Lord's Hall though and I should be able to start crashing the lvl 48-50 dungeons soon. Except River of Souls, that takes more organization. I checked out the entrance mobs, clearly designed for large Raid groups. Not a single group crawl.

So I'm thinking of setting up a message board for the guild. I already have a host(Site5), but I've never set up a message board before. Would people consider it worth the effort or do we think people wouldn't find their way out of FOFC? At the very least would be a learning experience for me :D.

We should be getting our World Event reward email with this morning's update-so you might want to log in just to see if you got lucky with the random treasure drop!

(please give me a horse, please give me a horse!)

Hey jeff,

Two ways of looking at it-1) this is our home here and its easy to check in on this thread since we all hang out here. 2) setting up our own message board elsewhere might make it more tempting to discuss the game more than here. Here everything is one thread so you have to search 10 pages now if you were looking for something. Having a message board with individualized topics would make things easier, and probably generate more response to specific issues and issues that haven't been discussed here yet to any extent.

So what do the rest of you think? And I've had no experience with message board setups so can't help you there I'm afraid.

And to avoid any confusion with the email-the quest NPC's will be removed from the game-so the two there together by the portal in Meridian will be gone after the patch. There is still the event vendor in the Planar College though to turn stuff in/by things from. I already bought some level 30 stuff for one of my characters on Keenblade, waiting to buy pets and stuff till I got stuff I could actually use first. :)

Hey jeff,

Two ways of looking at it-1) this is our home here and its easy to check in on this thread since we all hang out here. 2) setting up our own message board elsewhere might make it more tempting to discuss the game more than here. Here everything is one thread so you have to search 10 pages now if you were looking for something. Having a message board with individualized topics would make things easier, and probably generate more response to specific issues and issues that haven't been discussed here yet to any extent.

So what do the rest of you think? And I've had no experience with message board setups so can't help you there I'm afraid.
That's a fair point. In addition, I think our continued discussion on the game has actually helped talk others into playing. My fear would be we would lose that possibility by branching off onto another board.

Jeff - This is not to discourage you from learning how to set up and run a message board. Just thinking about the Rift community already here at FOFC - and possible new recruits.

Nope, that point is exactly what I meant when I said do you think people wouldn't find their way out of FOFC.

I can't stand these people that undercut my price points by 33%. I'm not gouging and people are paying, sure undercut me but don't establish a brand new pricepoint when the old is working fine :D.

I can't stand these people that undercut my price points by 33%. I'm not gouging and people are paying, sure undercut me but don't establish a brand new pricepoint when the old is working fine :D.

I hate it to...so I buy them out and slap them up to my price point. I make more than enough money buying low and selling high.

Just got the reward package. Achievements, the common 20 slot bag and a shade touched weapon cache.

such greed Jeff. :) Patch is up and checking my first email to see what I got. I have assorted characters across a few servers so let's see what I got: For each character I get the two achievements for participating in the last two stages of the event-a quest item that you turn in to Asha Cantari in the command center in Meridian for the shadetouched weapon cache quest starter item (given one of four choices-no level limit, use at level 23, 33, or 43), and she gives you the 250 sourcestones. And I can confirm the event Merchant is in Planar college just off the crafting area in Meridian. Now for the random items part:

-Shroud of Anti-Life (which I cant use to Level 30, which kinda sucks cause the character who got it is level 14.)
-20 slot bag
-20 slot bag
-Shroud of Anti-Life
-20 slot bag
-20 slot bag
-20 slot bag (kejaan :( -already had the 18 slot bag from the event)
-20 slot bag (severian :( )

I have one low level character who hasn't got to the first mailbox yet (and who I had forgotten about) but no horse for me it looks like. :(

Yeah, bags don't mean much for me. I was loaded with 16/18 slots(which is plenty) already and have 5 unlocked slots in the bank with 16s. Capacity just doesn't come into play anymore, especially with how easy it is to get back to town from pretty much anywhere.

I think I'll just drop all my crafting material in it so I can move it from my bank to my person and craft without picking through ingredients.

That said, the level 33 weapon cache I pulled dropped a staff that 13 levels later is still easily better than what I've seen since. So the 2nd cache is useful :D.

Trion just can't win-to go along with the bag and quest and such they gave us in return for the problems and mistakes they made with the World Event-they ended up making a new problem-they forgot to "turn on" the remaining world event merchant so that it would accept the quest events that people were still doing-like the shade-trap in Meridian and the close 3 death rifts etc.

So people saw the event quest givers were gone, couldn't turn them in to the merchant, and deleted their event quests-which meant they got no credit for them of course-which was never what Trion had intended...so now they have another mess on their hands...sigh.

And there may be a problem in connection to the shadetouch weapon cache quests-apparantly the quest items you need for that quest are not dropping at all or very rare to drop.

How about tomorrow (4/20) at like 8 or 9 EST?

crap, didn't see this and made dinner date with the missus :(

Do we have any low to mid level apothocaries? I have some plants I would like to give you :)

crap, didn't see this and made dinner date with the missus :(

It's ok...my daughter is grinding away on her shard and I am not able to get on right now....but the Sabres are playing so it's not a total loss.

first you should now be able to turn in any event quests you have left over in Meridian (or Sanctum). And the shadetouch weapon quest drops should be fixed (I think)

Second the 1.2 patch notes are up and wow are there a lot of them. :) Some intriguing things in there like slivers and Crafting Rifts. Sadly the one thing I was looking for I did not see at first glance....guild banks. :(

PTS 1.2 Patch Notes - 4/22/11 - In Progress (http://forums.riftgame.com/showthread.php?172352-PTS-1.2-Patch-Notes-4-22-11-In-Progress)

A lot of good crafting changes. Including changing one of my dailies that required a rare ingredient. Just acquiring the recipe to create the ingredient was a rare drop(I've gotten a lower level, not the high level) and required combining 2 high end ingredients to make. No more dropping 3p a day to complete :D.

Anyone know where the weekly crafting quests are?

A lot of good crafting changes. Including changing one of my dailies that required a rare ingredient. Just acquiring the recipe to create the ingredient was a rare drop(I've gotten a lower level, not the high level) and required combining 2 high end ingredients to make. No more dropping 3p a day to complete :D.

Anyone know where the weekly crafting quests are?

the ones mentioned in the patch notes? They are not live yet-the patch has been on the test server and so people were asking for the patch notes in advance so they could see what was to come.

Ah, got you. Looking forward to it. Lot of quality changes. Specifying per unit cost in AH? Nice.

Anybody interested in rolling Guardian characters on Keenblade tonight? I'm getting a bit burned out on doing the same quests since my two Defiants are about the same level. :) I will be on sometime after 7pm EST.